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For Further InformationVolunteer divers recover ghost nets: Healthy Seas reports 1,309.1 tons of nets and marine litter removed since 2013 (Healthy Seas figure).
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Healthy Seas, a nonprofit working with volunteer divers of Ghost Diving, local communities and about 150 partner organizations.
Cleanups that remove ghost nets and other marine litter, plus recycling of suitable nets into ECONYL® yarn with Aquafil.
Projects in countries including Greece, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany: shipwrecks, coastlines and abandoned fish farms.
Ghost nets stay in the sea for hundreds of years and keep catching and killing marine life.
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Healthy Seas reports more than 1,309.1 tons of ghost nets and other debris removed from the ocean through its clean-up operations (Healthy Seas figure, 2026 press kit). It also works with the fishing industry and fish farmers on prevention.
Source: Healthy Seas press kit 2026 (nonprofit)
For Further Information: Healthy Seas press kit 2026 (nonprofit)
Healthy Seas works with fishing communities and fish farmers to prevent net loss and turns recovered nylon into new yarn, creating value from waste (nonprofit description).
Source: Healthy Seas press kit 2026 (nonprofit)
Every ghost net removed stops needless The variety of all living things in a place: plants, animals, fungi and tiny microbes. Glossary loss and the overexploitation of fish that these lost nets cause.
Want to go deeper? The Healthy Seas press kit has its full numbers and partners.
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Saving Planets. (n.d.). Healthy Seas. https://www.savingplanets.com/Healthy_Seas.html
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"Healthy Seas." Saving Planets, https://www.savingplanets.com/Healthy_Seas.html.
